Peter Jackson heads to LFF

Peter Jackson will attend a special screening of his First World War film They Shall Not Grow Old at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

The film will be screened at BFI Southbank on 16th October as well as simultaneously in cinemas around the UK.

The screening will be followed by Q&A with Jackson.

Co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary, and Imperial War Museums, They Shall Not Grow Old has been created exclusively with original footage from Imperial War Museums’ film archive and audio from BBC archives.

The film uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colourised, converted to 3D and transformed with modern production techniques to present never before seen detail.

Speaking about the film, Jackson said:”I wanted to reach through the fog of time and pull these men into the modern world, so they can regain their humanity once more – rather than be seen only as Charlie Chaplin-type figures in the vintage archive film. By using our computing power to erase the technical limitations of 100 year cinema, we can see and hear the Great War as they experienced it.”